Leaves From The Vine
Falling So Slow
Like Fragile Tiny Shells
Drifting In The Foam
Little Soldier Boy
Come Marching Home
Brave Soldier Boy
Comes Marching Home
My blood test shows that I’m dangerously close to diabetes thanks to years of soda drinking, and I have no doubt stress added to this. I’ve given it up now and am just drinking water and an occasional crystal light with a meal. I cannot believe these last two months.
I finished Ghost of Tsushima. It was excellent. I loved the main story and the ending actually had me in tears. (At least the option I chose.) It definitely feels like a samurai film.
Main story and gameplay get a 9/10 from me. Side stories and characters not so much.
There were a lot of bad female characters in it, in my opinion anyways. They were mostly just characters written as men and then made female. All the most interesting characters in this game are male, hands down. It really frustrates me that a lot of fiction is like this now. Femininity is considered passé.
Life continues to be tough. Stressful events have made it extremely difficult for me to heal from my brother’s death. All I can hope is that there won’t be any further stress to hinder my search for peace. Thank goodness for my decision to seek therapy.
Claude Rains has become one of my favorite actors.
The Invisible Man, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Casablanca, Notorious. All fantastic roles anyone would kill for.
He truly was a bridge between American and British cinema. Always classy and entertaining. An actor’s actor.
Ghost of Tsushima is what Assassins Creed should have basically become. A lot of it is similar. They even have those fun berserk darts that the AC games got rid of later. I’m really enjoying GoT and I had to stop playing AC Odyssey because I hated the combat so much.
I have to say, the biggest way grief has changed me, is that I have no desire any longer to get angry at people for political differences. Just to be clear, my political opinions are the same, but knowing how fragile life is has made cultural divisions more painful for me.
So I had a very tough few days mentally, and my therapy session helped me feel a lot better. This is both a good and bad thing, the conversation in therapy helps me feel refreshed, but it seems I become desperate for another session as the days pass by.
The first Academy Awards were held in 1929 and covered movies released from Aug 1927 - August 1928. Films were still largely silent and there were only three nominations for best picture that year.
7th Heaven was a ww1 wartime melodrama starring Janet Gaynor and she was also the first winner in the best actress category. She was also in Sunrise that year and the award was partially for that film as well. I can't believe that film didn't get a best picture nomination, if I'm being honest. It won an award that I haven't seen since called the "Unique and Artistic Picture" award.
The Racket was a proto Noir film about a good cop mired in a world of corruption and trying to catch a mob boss. This film was previously considered a lost film until they found a copy in Howard Hughes' collection after he died. Lost films were a thing I would occasionally run into when trying to watch movies from the 20s. It's so sad that some films were lost forever and I hope we find copies someday.
Wings was the winner out of these three and it's a world war 1 film about US Air Corps pilots during the war. It had some really impressive shots for the time. There's one that occasionally goes viral on here of them panning over a bunch of tables in a restaurant. This one was definitely my favorite of the three! So the Academy did good this year.